And so it begins.

Classes ended on December 5th. I had my music final on the 12th and my education final on the 16th. I am now officially done with the semester and it feels awesome. To quote Evan from a post on my facebook wall, this will be "the most epic winter break of all time". Why is this you ask? Well...

1. Myboyfriend is now even more awesome than usual because he isn't drowning himself in an immense amount of 10 page papers.
2. Danielle comes home tomorrow
3. My sister and her family are coming to visit for a few days after Christmas
4. Dan DeLuca, his family, and I are going to see Shrek on January 2nd. And I'll get to see Andrew that afternoon too!
5. Dad's 64th birthday is January 3rd
6. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion listening party on January 5th in the city with Evan.
7. Seeing Billy Elliot sometime in mid January and then getting to see Gary and Jeff the same day!
8. 8 months with Evan on the 14th
9. January 20th: Animal Collective show/Obama/MPP release

There's bound to be more awesome happenings during the break. Yay!

Kovu and Thanksgiving and school, oh my!

So a lot has changed in these last few weeks. Firstly, I made the decision to rehome Kovu, my Siberian Husky due to the fact that I'm rarely ever home and when I am home I do not want to be bothered with him, or anyone. And for him to spend 10 hours a day in a crate is not fair at all. This one woman, Karen, called me about him and after coming over to meet him and they got along so well, everything seemed so perfect. Little things such as how she used to have a cat named Kiara (who's love interest was Kovu in the Lion King 2) and that her youngest son's favorite Disney character was Kovu just made it seem like it was meant to be and I wasn't at all worried about giving Kovu to this family. I brought him there one Saturday night and their pomeranian, Bella, didn't like Ko' at all but we all figured that it would take some time.

I went to Evan's that night, then went to work early the next morning and I heard my cell phone ring in my pocket and saw Karen's number and my heart immediately sank because I figured that either Kovu ate Bella or Kovu ran away. But I listened to the voicemail and she basically said how Bella showed no signs of wanting to get along with Kovu and that it wasn't going to work out. And as I got home from work that afternoon, Kovu was laying in my room. I was devasted because it I had to go through this process all over again of trying to find a good family to take him. My mom's friend suggested that I post an ad on Craigs List for Kovu and so a few days later I did just that and within minutes I received an overwhelming response from interested people. After talking to a bunch of different families I decided to give Kovu to this family from Lindenhurst, Leon and Helena. Kovu seemed so happy when he was with them and now I'm really happy that he has a great home!

For Thanksgiving Johnny, Kerry, and Jack came up from Georgia for a few days and it was so great seeing them. Sucks that they live so far away :/ They're my favorites!

Jack-Jack and my Dad :)

Tomorrow and Friday are my last 2 days of classes for the semester. YAY! I'm more excited over the fact that I won't have this crazed monster as my boyfriend for one whole month, he'll actually be somewhat normal and enjoyable, thank god.

I probably should get back to studying for political science and spanish...see ya!

p.s. Christmas is in 22 days